[Jonty30]

The President should be a nationalist, not to be concerned about state issues and to project power to the world. I am familiar with Jackson’s quote of his willingness to hang secessionists himself.

However, that doesn’t change a right of a state to leave. As I said, the Founding Fathers did not enumerate to the federal government the ability to prevent a state from leaving. So, therefore, it had a right to leave via the Tenth Amendment.

The only thing the Federal government can do is place conditions upon a state that regrets leaving and applies to join the union again. There, the federal government can place all the conditions it wants. That’s also a check against a schizophrenic state from joining, then leaving and joining again.

[cowboyusa]

Tens of Thousands of Southenwrs did not feel that way, the followed under the Jacksonian banner.

[cowboyusa]

The Articles of Confederation also say that no 2 States shall into any Alliance or Treaty, also, “the union shall be perpetual, nor shall any alteration at ANY Time after, be made in ANY of them, unless such alteration at in a congress of the United states, and afterwards, be afterwards by the legislatures of EVERY State. Also, EVERY Colony had to agree to form the United States, it was a joint effort from the beginning.